120 Quotes by James Murphy

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.

I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.

I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.

I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.